Jimbo

Don't say that in front of any Sheffield United fans.....

Hatton Vs Pacquiao Fight Night Round 4 style Worth watching via the website and hitting the HD button for full effect. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNvgrCN-YmM

Missed a trick, haven't they? Did you expect anything else ?

Fuck off Scott - trying to defend that cunt is ridiculous man. He's a fucking animal. Quite what bringing the opposition into it is going to do I've no idea. If he'd done that against Sunderland I'd be saying exactly the same. And as I've said elsewhere, I've no more sympathy for Martins. £10m striker? You've got to be kidding me - lazy arsed cunt. Calm down, calm down. I think you've got scouse flu! As for Martins, turns out yours truly was right all along about that useless twat. You should set up a sticky for people to apologize to me. I'm no fan of Martins but he is playing with an injury, that is clearly obvious. Are you ready to apologise about Owen though? Martins is shit man. It's been obvious for ages. Why would I apologise about Owen? Your rimming of him. Tromboning more like

He's not enthusing me at all, but you have to factor in to the equation the utter shite he has to work with.

The Sun: ALAN SHEARER had a massive dressing-room bust-up with Joey Barton after Newcastle’s 3-0 defeat at Liverpool. Shearer was steaming at the bad-boy midfielder for getting sent off for an ugly late lunge at Reds rival Xabi Alonso. But as the Toon boss tore into the £5.8m player, telling him he had let himself and the club down, Barton replied: “You’re a shit manager with shit tactics.” The pair went head to head and had to be pulled apart just as they were about to come to blows. A Newcastle insider said: “It was unbelievable. They were like two stags. “Shearer told Barton he had made a mistake putting him back in the team, that he thought Barton was good enough to do it but he had shown he wasn’t. “Joey shouted at Alan that he was the best player at the club, which was why he had to play him. “Alan said he wasn’t, called him shit and Joey replied that he was a shit manager with shit tactics. “At that point, it looked like they were going to have a full-scale brawl and had to be dragged apart. “Shearer was really angry, not just because of the stupid red card but because it means Barton will be missing for the last three Premier League games when Newcastle need everyone available. “Alan gave Joey the big build-up during the week, saying what an important player he could be in Newcastle’s fight against relegation, and then he does that. “You wonder what goes on in Joey’s head.” Shearer has vowed to fine Barton two weeks’ wages of around £120,000 and has washed his hands of the midfield hot-head. After the game Shearer said: “Barton wasn’t unlucky to be sent off, it was the right decision. “We will be without him for the rest of the season and I’m not happy at all. “He has let me down, definitely, and the same goes for the whole club and himself. From a disciplinary point of view, I will do whatever I can.”

FT thank god

Villa really under the kosh.

Several goals tonight please

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I never thought I'd feel sorry for Mike Ashley, but I do. He put his faith in the wrong men - and they have let him down badly. There can be no apology for some of Ashley's decisions. He picked out-of-touch managers Kevin Keegan and Joe Kinnear, and his decision to appoint Dennis Wise as executive director of football was a complete disaster. But I have sympathy with him because, unlike a lot of big-time owners, Ashley did not stick his nose in and interfere. All he did was bring in who he thought were football people and trusted them to do the right thing. It is their fault, not his, that they wasted millions of pounds on bad players. Wise, his cohort Tony Jimenez and Kinnear were all out of their depth and that is why the club are in such a mess and relying on an unlikely result at Liverpool today to keep their Premier League survival hopes alive. I remember asking Ashley soon after the club signed Kevin Nolan in January what homework had been done on the player? I wanted to know how many times he had been scouted and what reports had been done of him. Ashley shrugged, he genuinely didn't know the answer. I told him I'd be more careful about spending his next £4.5 million! Who would have thought such a successful businessman would be so trusting. My guess is that a lot of the recent signings at Newcastle have not been checked out properly. Wise thought Xisco was a good idea. So Ashley paid £5.7m for a striker who has gone on to score one goal all season. I don't know who recommended Fabricio Colloccini, but Ashley put his hand in his pocket for another £10m.Colloccini would have struggled to get into Newcastle's reserves a few years ago. When things started to get desperate in January, it seems the club started to listen a little less to Wise, and more to Kinnear. But the result was the same - more of the wrong type of player. Nolan lacks mobility in an important area of the pitch, just what Newcastle didn't need! Peter Lovenkrands was also signed. OK, he didn't cost any money, but that doesn't matter because he simply isn't good enough at Premier League level. One of the few good players left, Charles N'Zogbia, went to Wigan. Newcastle got Ryan Taylor in return. I know for a fact Wigan were delighted with the deal - they never rated Ryan as a Premier League-class player. None of these things were Ashley's fault, beyond the fact that he put the wrong people in the wrong positions and wrongly believed they knew what they were doing. The penny may have dropped now. Certainly the appointment of Alan Shearer was the right thing to do, albeit arguably too late. WORTHY: Alan Shearer is the right man for Newcastle job And, of course, I wish Kinnear all the best in his recuperation after an operation because nobody likes to hear of a fellow football man being unwell. Anyone mocking Alan for not turning things around yet doesn't understand what he's inherited. The only saving grace is that among the problems there are enough match-winners, Oba Martins, Mark Viduka, Damien Duff, Michael Owen, to try to keep the team up this season. But there has to be a massive turnaround in the summer if Newcastle are going to improve long term. The squad is unbalanced, it is short of legs and pace and it is no fluke they are in the bottom three. I hope Alan has the desire to see this job through, because I believe he has Ashley's confidence. In my view, Alan is the first person really worthy of the Newcastle hot-seat since I left in 2004. What he lacks in experience, he makes up for in knowledge about the club and, more importantly, his knowledge of the game in general and his ability to communicate that knowledge and make positive decisions. I have watched in disbelief and near horror at some of the things that have gone on at Newcastle in the past year. I feel sorry for Ashley - I just don't think he understood what the game was all about. He has done the right thing in giving Alan a chance and I can only hope it's not too late. I wish Alan every success at Anfield. My heart and head are with him.

Every cloud......

I've got no problem with the colour of the card, it was a pathetic act by Barton, totally over the top for the situation which in my mind was why it was red rather than yellow, had it been any other player it would have been yellow and a stern ticking off but Barton brings bagage, as soon as the ref saw the name on the back of the shirt his mind was made up.

We are where we are by no accident, we are a terrible terrible team, and it breaks my heart to admit it.

Not waving but drowning.

Well ?

He has been shite, but I'm not convinced he's a winger.

How did you go about doing them last two?! Ditto !

I just hope he can inject the same kind of emotion into the players, sadly it seems too many just don't give a fuck.

I seriously don't know what's more depressing, staying up or going down.

Full time.

Class

Mackems 0 - 2 Everton

Mackems 0 - 1 Everton

Just think, Faye is responsible personally for 4 points against us in a Stoke shirt, and the countless points CoLOLoccini has cost us. If only.....